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STORE SERVICE APPARATUS.

No. 350,861. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 350,861, dated October 12, 1886.

Application filed May 5, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lsinonn Briton, a citi zen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia,and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in StoreService Apparatus, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My invention relates in general to the class of store-service apparatus in which the traveling carrier is a basket or other goods-receiver suspended from the depending arm or hanger of a one or two wheeled truck, the wheel or wheels of which travel upon an elevated track composed of a single rail.

My invention relates, specifically, to the car rier receivers or devices for receiving the carriers at the end of a given line of track, and

for permitting of the descent or bringingdown of said carriers one by one from the level of the track to a lower level; and it also relates to a class of devices employed in connection with the carrier-receivers, which are known as carrier-arresters," and are employed for stopping or arresting the carriers at the end of a given track and before their travel upon the receiver.

My invention comprchendsan improved carrier-arrester, a good form of a convenient embodiment of which is represented in the accompanying drawings, and described in this specification, the particular subject-matter claimed as novel being hereinafter definitely specified.

In Letters Patent of the United States, No. 325,384, granted September 1, 1885, upon my application, there is shown and described, essentially, such a carrier-receiving apparatus as is herein represented as employed in connection with my improved arr-ester, and in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 325; 435, granted September 1, 1885, to S. G. North, there is also shown and described a substantially similar carrier-receiver to that herein" depicted, and reference can therefore be made to both of the foregoing patents for a clear understanding of such a receiver as it is convenient to employ.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in side elevation, and Fig. 2 a top plan view, sectioned through the suspenders, of an apparatus embodying my invention, the parts Sel'iulNo, 201,147. (No mo .101.)

being represented in the positions whichthey occupy when the receiver has been elevated. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively similar views of the said apparatus, in the positions which the parts occupy when the receiver has been dropped. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevat-ional detail representing the position of the receiver in the act of being dropped or elevated, a part of the arresterbar being broken away. Fig (i is an end elcvational detail of the suspcnder 1 showing especially the application of the lateral gnide-pinf to the arrester-bar. Fig. 7 is a sectional side elevational del ail th rough the pivot ofthe arresterbar.

Similar letters otreference indicate corre sponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the terminal portion of thctrack or carryingrail, which, in the mounting of the apparatus represented is sustained by l we depending forked sus ponders, l1 11.

0 represents traveling carriers; 0, the do pending hangers of said carriers.

l) is the carrier-receiver, pivoted at 1?, near the terminal extremity of the track, and provided with a pivoted detent, 1!, provided with aheel, (I and eontrolledby the operating-cord E in substantially the manner set forth in Part out No. 325,384. The extremity of the track A is prolonged to form a horizontal foot, 0, which extends into the receiver in a ignment with the heel d of the detent (1*. This foot serves not only as atrack-bar within the re ceiver to deliver the carrier into the crotch of the detent, but also as a rest, to prevent the falling of a succeeding carrier entering the re ceiver before a carrier within it has been brought down, and again as a stop to limit the upward throw of the receiver itself.

F is the carrier-arrester bar, pivoted by means of a vertical pivot, f, to the forkedsus pender 13, the said bar being along flat plate or piece of metal provided with two curves to form steps, which I. respectively designate as the outer stornf, and the inner stop, and which are respectively in advance and beyond the pivotf of said bar. That extremi- 'tal portion of the arrcster-bar which passes between the forks of the suspcnder B is conveniently provided with a lateral guide-pin,

f, which passes through a suitable bearingin permit of the movement of the said receiver about itspivot without occasioning the binding of the headed lug within the slot of the camway, and second, outward] y from its bracket, so as to cause the engagement of the said camway, in the movement of the latter with the receiver, either against the inside face of the head of the lug f or against the outside face of the extremity of the arrester-bar, andthereby occasion in the movement of the carrier and camway a movement of the arresterbar about its pivot f.

Such beinga description of a good form of contrivance, its operation will be readily understood YVhen the carrier-arresterhas been dropped and is at rest or in the position represented in Figs. 3 and 4, the camway will have occasioned the deflection of the inner portion and inner stop, f*, of the arrester-bar against the track A, and the carrier then advancing along the track will encounter the said arrcster-bar, as represented in Figs. 3 and 4, and be arrested. So soon as it is desired to bring down the arrested carrier the receiver is lifted from the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the result that the arrester-bar is deflected into the po- .sition represented in Fig. 2, and the arrested ing carrier, while the carrier first arrested is run into the receiver. So soon, however, as the carrier first arrested has entered the receiver andthe receiver has been allowed to drop, to bring said carrier down, the action of the dropping of. the receiver will, through the camway, occasion the redeflection of the arrested bar from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 4, and consequently permit the second or subsequently-arrested carrier to gravitate as far as against the inner stop, as shown in Fig. 4, where it will remain until the receiver is again elevated, the arrested bar'thereby again deflected, and its own progress no longer barred.

The operation of the apparatus, as will be and that the said camway, if desired, be otherwise formed or attached in any preferred manner, so long as the change does not affect 7 its operation for the lateral deflection in either direction, according to the position of parts, of the 'arrester-bar.

The lateral guide-pin f 2 may, if desired, be

omitted; but it is preferably employed to lessen the leverage otherwise exerted upon the pivot of the arrester-bar.

It is obvious that other forms of pivoted receivers adapted to have applied to them a camway for operating my .arrestcr-bar, can be substituted for the specific receiver represented.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a store-service apparatus, the follow ing elements in combination: a track, a pivoted carrier-receiver, a horizontally-moving arrester-bar adapted to be deflected toward or from the track, and a device connected with the receiver for occasioning the movement of said arrester-bar, substantially as set forth.

2. In a store-service apparatus, the following elements in combination: a track, a pivoted carrier-receiver, a horizontally-moving pivoted arrester-bar adapted as to either of its ends to be deflected toward or from the track, so as to block or permit the movement of the carrier both in advance of and beyond its pivot, and a cam device moving with the receiver to occasion the deflection of the said arrester-bar, substantially as set forth.

3. 111 a store-service apparatus, the following elements in combination: a track,a pivoted carrier-receiver, a horizontally-moving pivoted arrester-bar so formed as to present a stop on each side of its pivot, and a cam device fixedly connected with the receiver, and having a sliding connection or traveling union with said arrester-bar, for occasioning the movement of the latter, substantially as set forth. a

4. In a store-service apparatus, the fgllowing elements in combination: a track, a pivoted carrier-receiver, a horizontally-moving doubly-curved pivoted arrester-bar adapted to be deflected toward or from the track, and a cam device fixedly connected with the receiverand having a sliding connection or traveling union with said arrester-bar for occasioning the movement of the latter, substantially as set forth.

5. In a store-service apparatus, the following elements in combination: a track, a pivoted carrier-receiver, a horizontally-moving pivoted arrester-bar adapted to be deflected about its pivot toward or from the track, a slotted camway connected with the receiver,

and a headed lug connected with the arresterbar and engaged with the slot of the calnway, bar to said receiver when the latter is elevated, to substantially as set forth. substantially as set forth.

6. In a store-service apparatus, a pivoted Intestimonywhereoflhavehereunto si ned carrier-receiver having no track-bar, but promy name this 30th day of April, A. D. 1886. vided with a detent having a heel, 1'11 cornbia nation with a track, the terminal extremity of ISIDORB BIRGT" which is provided with a horizontal foot which In the presence of extends into the receiver in alignment with J. BONSAVLL TAYLOR, the heel of the (letent, and serves as a track- WM. 0. STRAWBRIDGE.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 350,861, granted October 12, 1886,

upon the application of Isidore Birge, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Store Service Apparatus, an error appears in the printed specification am'ester and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

, Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 26th day of October, A. D. 1886. E 1 [SEAL] H. L. MULDROW,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Gountersign ed R. B. VANCE, Acting Commissioner of Patents.

requiring the following correction: In line 58, page 2, the word arrested should read A 

